There’s probably nothing much more exciting for a space artist than to have an entirely new world to play with! I’ve…
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The history of the modern exploration of the solar system has been a catalog of surprises. No matter what…
As much as we love The Muppets, in 1963 a pair of NASA engineers entertained the idea of sending real pigs into…
NASA's 2016 budget was approved by President Obama last week, and it contained some exciting goals: "A robust…
These parlor tricks were published by Hugo Gernsback back in the 1920s, but they've been around forever.
In the heyday of America's love affair with space travel, there were few products that weren't tied in somehow to…
The prospect of future tourists gawking at the ice fountains of Enceladus, the volcanoes of Io and the grand canyons…
A report from the Jet Propulsion laboratory today reveals that in May 2012, while Titan's southern hemisphere was…
Once upon a time it was quite popular to depict the human body in terms of machinery. The idea was that all of the…
In 1951 Collier's magazine devoted an entire issue to reporting an imagined version of World War III. The magazine…
People like to make lists of things, especially lists of superlatives: the best, fastest, oldest, largest, heaviest…
Caught up in the let's-attach-a-rocket-to-everything-and-see-what-happens fad in Germany in the late 1920s, one…
In a study published in the latest issue of Science, astronomers led by graduate student Huan Meng, of the…
Most histories of that wonderful subgenre of science fiction called "steampunk" list Ronald Clark's 1967 novel,Queen…
It’s a surprise to many to learn that Andy Griffith was not only the beloved, homespun sheriff of Mayberry, he was…
The American Civil War was probably the first truly modern war in that technology was so important. The military use…
If you are sick of all those safely precautions required to set off fireworks these days, then maybe you'd have…
One of the results of Earth having a tilted axis is, for better or worse, the seasons. On June 21st, we'll be at one…
When the Dawn spacecraft finally reaches Ceres early next year, it may find a world much stranger than expected.